“Conjunctions” Exhibition

Peninsula Art Space

poster for “Conjunctions” Exhibition
[Image: Jonas Weber Herrera "Untitled (Manifest)" (2016) Inkjet prints, 23.6 x 15.75 in. each. Courtesy of the artist.]

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Peninsula Art Space presents Conjunctions, a group exhibition presented in collaboration with Residency Unlimited and curated by Rachel Valinsky. Featuring Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Jonas Weber Herrera, Andreas Savva, and Kato Six, Conjunctions presents new works developed over the course of their residencies as well as past works shown for the first time in New York.

Working across different media, Dewey-Hagborg, Weber Herrera, Savva, and Six gesture towards techniques of uncovering and concealing, projecting and laying bare, to compose bodies and populate space with forms. While Dewey-Hagborg and Weber Herrera’s works deal specifically with questions of gender and embodiment, Savva and Six explore the life of forms, revealing through subtle yet complex manipulations the relationship of objects to their surrounding environment.

Heather Dewey-Hagborg has shown work internationally at events and venues including the World Economic Forum, Shenzhen Urbanism and Architecture Biennale, the New Museum, and PS1 MOMA. Her work has been widely discussed in the media, from the New York Times and the BBC to TED and Wired. She is an Assistant Professor of Art and Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a 2016 Creative Capital award grantee in the area of Emerging Fields.

Jonas Weber Herrera is a filmmaker, artist, writer and university lecturer in Berlin. His work focuses on the construction, shaping and conditioning of bodies through power structures as well as sociocultural and media effects. His works have been shown internationally in film festivals (KunstFilmBiennale, Cologne. Kasseler Dokumentar- and Videofest) and exhibitions at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Akademie der Künste, Autocenter, Berlin, Kunstverein seit 1817, Hamburg, Centre George Pompidou, Paris or Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid. He is a grant recipient of the Graduiertenstiftung des Freistaates Thüringen, the Senate of Berlin and has also been supported by the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy, Weimar mentored by Harun Farocki. Weber Herrera has also published articles for the weekly newspaper der Freitagandand waahr.de. and was co-editor of the volume z.B. – Praxisbasierte Forschung in Design und Kunst.

Andrea Savva (born 1970, Cyprus) studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1991-1996) and completed his MA studies in “Digital Forms of Art” at ASFA (2002-2004). He has presented his work in several solo exhibitions in Greece (Athens, Thessaloniki), Cyprus (Nicosia), Ireland (Cork) and Germany (Munich) and in many group exhibitions in Greece, Cyprus, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Portugal etc, including: European Young Artists Biennial, Rome, 1999 (cur: Yiannis Kounelis), Europe Exists, 2003 (cur: Rosa Martinez & Harald Szeeman), Seville Biennale, 2004 (cur: Harald Szeeman), Instant Europe, Italy 2004 (cur: Francesco Bonami), Action Field Codra, Thessaloniki 2008 (cur: Ruth Noack), Open 12, Venice Lido 2009 (cur: Paolo De Grandis). He lives in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Belgian artist Kato Six (born 1986) aims to reconfigure our experience of the ways we make ourselves at home in the world. She uses elements, forms, and materials that recall former interior designs as a starting point for her installations. She studied graphic design and multimedia design at the School of Arts in Ghent. Recent exhibitions include: Background Hum, c-o-m-p-o-s-i-t-e, Brussels, Focus moves aside, objects appear, WIELS, Brussels, Vibrant Matter, KIOSK, Ghent and Hijacking Karma, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam.


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from November 04, 2016 to November 20, 2016

Opening Reception on 2016-11-04 from 19:00 to 21:00

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